(FWD)linux, cable modem, and RCN

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

VA uses Red Hat -- you should have 'pump' installed.  And Pump works
fine for me on my RCN cablemodem.

-derek

John Chambers <jc at trillian.mit.edu> writes:

> A while back, Evan Sarmiento <kaworu at bu.EDU> wrote:
> 
> | It's easy Michael. Infact, I have RCN cable.
> | Download dhclient.
> | Once the cable modem is connected to your nic, type dhclient eth0.
> | Basically, that tool just gets you an ip address from RCN.
> |
> | In Debian, dhclient was automatically put into /etc/init.d, I just edited
> | the configuration so it only sent a dhcp offer on eth0.
> 
> We might have a RCN cable modem soon, so I've been trying  to  follow
> up  on  it.   So far, I haven't found any clues about anything called
> "dhclient" on this (valinux) machine. It seems that there should be a
> way  to  ask rpm where it is on the install CD, but "man rpm" doesn't
> seem to contain any clues. The find(1) command can't find it  ...
> 
> Actually, asking altavista does turn up a few matches for "dhclient",
> and they all seem to be in Debian bug reports.
> 
> (It would be embarrassing if we could get RCN to talk  to  my  wife's
> Windoze  machine, but I had to keep using a dialup account to get out
> to the rest of the world.  Of course, RCN knows how to install it  on
> Windoze,  but  their  people  seem  to  think that linux is a Peanuts
> character.  ;-)
> 
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